[This is the second part of my review of the 2010 MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference.]In the afternoon, I attended the main forum of the day, which was provocatively titled, "What Geeks Don't Get: The Limits of Moneyball". Like the baseball, basketball, and emerging analytics sessions, this one was also standing room only. That it […]
Hello, and greetings from 34,000 feet! I decided to get started on my review of the Sloan Sports Analytics Conference. This is going to be the first of about three or four parts that touch on different sessions during the event. I took pictures on Saturday but the uploading software that I use is on […]
Today was the day of the Sloan Sports Analytics Conference, and I spent all day at the conference interacting with participants from the world of sport, finance, and other technical fields. It was a very enjoyable conference and I am in the middle of writing a summary of what went on. I return to Arizona […]
Today was quite an eventful travel day. No, not because of the flight. The two plane rides I had were very uneventful, the best kind, actually. The real issue was my mobile phone. I have had a Blackberry Curve for a little over two years, and the rollerball has acted up on several occasions to […]
This post will be kept at the top of the page for the week. More recent posts are below.If you still haven't registered for the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference, it's too late. The conference has officially sold out with over 800 1000 attendees. The previous two meetings were at the MIT campus with a […]
The MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference has released the list of finalists of their research paper competition. I am surprised that there are only four papers in the final competition; I would have expected six to eight. One of the papers is — surprise, surprise — on the Pythagorean expectation in baseball, examining how run […]
The Sloan Sports Analytics Conference has released its schedule of events. Several of the sessions will run concurrently, but not as many as I feared. Sunil Gulati will appear in a session parallel to the Emerging Analytics session (with the officials from Man City and Chelsea), so there may be some popping in and out […]
The World Congress on Science and Football is a quadrennial conference that draws academics and professionals from all over the world to discuss issues related to the intersection of football with the physical, mathematical, and social sciences. It is unique in that it has discussions on all of the football codes — from association, to […]
Well, I've had some more time to digest the news about my paper submission. I'm not happy about the final outcome; I thought (like any other submitter) that other people might be interested in what I would be presenting. It doesn't always work out that way, for a variety of reasons (paper not good enough, […]
About an hour ago I received the following email from the conference organizers: Thank you for submitting your abstract to the 2010 MIT Sloan Sports Conference. Unfortunately we received an overwhelming response and, though your paper was excellent, are unable to invite you to the conference at this time. We anticipate that this will be […]
